Chapter 60: The Fifth Month of Wu De Year Eight

  "Aunt, this is my little brother? Oh my, why are they so ugly and wrinkly?" Little sister looked at her two brothers with a frown, these were the two younger brothers she had been expecting, but why didn't they match what she had imagined, they were all wrinkly and ugly.

  "When you were little, you couldn't speak either. Who wasn't like that when they were born? You were even smaller than your two younger brothers at birth. Auntie said to the young servant girl, her words were too harsh, didn't she know how long Big Sister and Little Brother had been waiting for this boy?"

  "It's okay, it's okay. They've all given birth to children before. When they were young, didn't they look a bit ugly too? Look, their eyes aren't even open yet." The old mother saw that the second aunt was scolding the little daughter-in-law and instead comforted the second aunt.

  "Is that true? I was uglier than these two brothers when I was little." Xiaoniang felt a bit sad, but then she became happy, "So, the uglier you are when you're young, the more beautiful you'll be when you grow up. That means these two brothers will definitely not be as good-looking as me when they grow up. Look at how beautiful I am now."

  "Go, little girl, you know what beauty is," Erniang teased Xiaoniang, "These boys don't need beauty, they need to be strong and powerful."

  "Who says I don't know what beauty is? Look at Dabo, she's very beautiful. When I grow up, I'll definitely become as beautiful as Dabo."

  Upon hearing this, Yang Heng suddenly realized that his mother was truly beautiful. What time was it? The scars on her face had all disappeared, without even leaving a trace behind. It was really strange. No wonder she said she used to be beautiful when she was young. In less than two years since coming here, the scars on her face had all vanished. Maybe it was related to swimming last year. Her skin now looked as tender as a flower. If someone were to say that she was over thirty, no one would believe it. In Yang Heng's eyes, his mother looked like she was only in her early twenties. Perhaps his own face had also improved a lot. Not urgent, not urgent, Yang Heng suddenly felt the urge to look at himself in the mirror. He didn't even dare touch his own face now.

  "Aunt, have the younger brothers been named?" "Yes, they have. For now, we've given them a small name because your two younger brothers were born around the same time, so we gave them ox names. To tell them apart, the older brother, who is from Aunt's family, is called Big Ox, and the younger one is called Little Ox."

  This was decided by my mother, aunt, father and uncle after a long discussion, and also after consulting with Dr. Sun. Since it's the year of the Rooster, we should have chosen a name related to roosters, but we couldn't just call him Big Rooster Little Rooster. So we looked for names that go well with roosters, which are Cow and Snake. Therefore, my mother and father unanimously chose the name Big Cow Little Cow. This is just a nickname, it doesn't need to sound particularly good, as long as it's easy to raise him.

  While Dr. Sun was delighted to see the children healthy and happy, he accompanied several midwives on their way out, as he needed to ask them about some things that had happened during this time. Why not ask Yang Heng? Because he knew Yang would be very busy, and also because he was afraid Yang wouldn't explain clearly, whereas these midwives were practical and could infer the general situation from a few details.

  "Big cow, little cow, you are my younger brothers, you must grow up quickly. I am your elder sister, when you grow up, I will teach you to recite the Thousand Character Classic, to recite the Book of Poetry, and tell you the legend of Investiture of the Gods. But, auntie, why haven't these two little cows opened their eyes yet? Shall I open them for him?" Just as the young girl was planning how to educate her two younger brothers when they grew up a bit, she suddenly discovered that they hadn't even opened their eyes yet.

  "Little girl, this won't do. Once you open their eyes, they will grow very small. If you only open one eye, then he will have one big eye and one small eye, that's ugly."

  "Uh, no pinching, no pinching. Little girl is very well-behaved, little girl wants two handsome younger brothers." The little girl was so scared that she quickly put her hands behind her back, as if she was afraid of accidentally pinching their eyes.

  "Wow." The two little ones actually yawned at the same time, then covered their mouths with one hand. This is even more synchronized than twins! "Haha, this is so much fun, these two brothers are yawning together!"

  "Alright, alright, everyone get out, the two kids need to sleep, don't disturb them." As she spoke, Second Aunt began to shoo people away. The room was surrounded by a large group of children, although only Little Niang had spoken up, it wasn't that the other kids weren't curious. Everyone left with reluctance, even Yang Heng followed suit and went out as well.

  "Father, why don't we buy a few more maids? I think Lotus is having trouble taking care of these two children on her own, not to mention Mother and Little Aunt." Yang Heng suggested.

  "Nephew, no, no, how can you always use your family's servants? Why don't I go with you to buy a maid and bring her back, then you won't have to buy one." The uncle knew that his aunt would still be living in Yang Heng's house until after the month of confinement was over, so he thought it would be fine for Lotus Sister to take care of Yang Heng's mother and child, and he could just go buy a maid to take care of his aunt.

  "In that case, it's settled then. Why don't you and your uncle go together? However, our household still needs to buy a maid." Yang Heng thought that with more things to do at home, Lian Jie alone really couldn't handle it, so they needed to add another person.

  "Big brother, why don't we also go buy a servant girl to bring back?" The other three uncles heard this and thought that it's not necessary to wait until there's a need before adding more people. Just look at how well Big Brother's family is taking care of Xiaolian, especially when it comes to taking care of pregnant women - it's not something these old men can handle. Now that they're all set with children, who knows when they'll have kids? They might as well add more people now and let Yang Heng's nephew train them. Who knows when they'll be useful? For now, they're just thinking about convenience. After all, this year's wheat harvest was good, and the taxes only took a small part of it, so they've become more generous. Especially looking at the fields in front of them, future harvests will definitely be even better.

  "That's okay, but there might not be that many people to buy in the county town. I think we need to go to a bigger city, or else let them send people over for us to choose from, so we don't all have to go out. Otherwise, only women and children would be left at home, and we really can't rest assured about that." Old Dad suddenly came up with an idea, he suddenly remembered that last time they went to buy people, the seller seemed to have said that if the demand was large, they could deliver to their doorstep.

  "This is really feasible, then trouble big brother you go help contact."

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